Here We Go... In my latest computer tweaking and hacking "obsession", I've been scouring the net looking for some good overclockable dual Pentium III boards, slot one. I couldn't find any that "had it all", and I was really really close to ordering a Tyan
Site Update Just added a new Linux screenshot, which I also submitted to e.t.o. It's been a whole month since I did the last one. =)
Rated N This is pretty much nerdy stuff – Tuesday night, I tried to install this network card I got from Fry's that has remote-power-on capability. That way, I can turn on my computer from a remote location (work) if I need to grab something. Anyhoo, it was a cheapie but
Dreams Have you ever woken up from a disappointing dream to have it affect you for the rest of the day? Well I just had one, and it's messing with my head and making me all depressed. "It's just a dream" I keep telling myself.
New Office I'm at the new office right now. Even though it's five miles longer, the drive is 45 minutes shorter. Normally the drive to Santa Monica is somewhere between 70-90 minutes. So this is cool. The only thing is it's pretty stuffy in here. Mental
Pics Are Up Okay, my computer pics are finally up... Took me longer than I thought to do all the capturing, imaging and code but it's all up in the 'stuff' section. Or click here for the shortcut. I'm going to sleep.
Scored at CompUSA I lucked out with some sale prices at CompUSA. I was there yesterday to check out what they have for sound cards, and I almost bought one. The SB-Live! X-Gamer... but for some reason, I just didn't buy it. So today, I went over and whaddya know, it&
My PC Sucks I decided to bust out the Dremel again to create a "blowhole", or in this case a "suckhole" for my 90mm fan that's in the front of my case. That way, I won't have to pop off the front of the case
More Power My new CPUs came in today... I am now running on dual P3 Coppermine 700s. It's noticeably faster, but not as fast as I thought it would be. What I mean is the increase in performance isn't as drastic as when I upgraded my 486DX/2
New Taco Truck I went over to Longo Toyota to see if they had the new 2001 Tacoma trucks in, and they had a couple. I've been driving by like every other day to see if they had 'em and they finally do. All I have to say is that
DSL was down My DSL and voice line has been down since Monday, and it was finally restored this morning. Yesterday, it hit me on how dependent I was on having a net connection. From work, I wanted to access my server a few times, but nope. Couldn't do that. And
PC Mod Yesterday (before the hard drive crash) I installed a window and light kit on my pooter. Looks very sweet. Got the parts from PCMods.com if you wanna check it out. I'll put pics up soon.
Hard Drive Crash Well there's a first time for everything – my "new" Maxtor 30 gig hard drive crashed yesterday. It wasn't even 1 month old... It was manufactured in July and I bought it late last month. So I went back to my 9 gig drive and
NBC Sucks When it comes to broadcasting the Olympics, NBC sucks. Yesterday I was set to watch the opening ceremonies at 7:30. And what did they start off with? A news story on the IOC bribery scandal. Old news but that's what they decided to present us to kick
USB baby! Yeah... Just got my USB Razer Boomslang mouse working in Linux. Had to recompile the kernel with a backpatch that's currently in the dev kernels. You can find the info by searching Linux.com for "usb" and you'll eventually get there. Took me a
Busy Wow... It's been more than a week since my last news bit. I've been really busy lately with work and play. At work, I've been doing stuff on-site at another company that doesn't really seem like something I should be doing. But
My (Hopefully) Last Upgrade Okay, so yesterday I decided to continue my wire management project and cut up the ribbon cables that go to my drives. This took another 3 hours, but it went by really quick. I guess that means I had fun. I am such a nerd! Anyways, the looms are all
Laying Cable I spent a good 3 hours last night redoing the wiring inside my computer. I bought some blue wire loom and wrapped those unsightly wires in 'em. Looks pretty slick. And the airflow probably improved a bit too, since there's no rats nest for the air to
New Hard Drive Yesterday I bought a new hard drive. Let's see how long this 30 gig drive will last... This one replaces a 10 gig which I almost filled up. Back when I first bought the 10 gig, I thought that's all I would ever need... Ha! Hard
Savin\' Up for Pearl Jam No, not the concert. I already have some kick-ass tix for the October 28 show at Glen Helen. I'm talking about saving up for the 25, yes 25 double-CD sets that are going to be released on September 26. These are "official" bootlegs from PJ'
Broken Windows At work, I'm running Win2k on a Pentium III 650MHz box with 128 megs of RAM. I left it on over the weekend and I came back to a computer that runs like a 386. It took about a minute for Outlook to open. The system was swapping
Site News Added a new screenshot. Also re-sorted the screenshot section to display by date, starting with the most recent. Also squashed a stupid bug I made with the screenshot code. Today is going to be a short day – I woke up at noon!
Ramblings Yesterday, I got myself a $4 haircut and shampoo at Supercuts. I had this card that they stamp and after the 12th time, the 13th cut is free. And it only took me a whole year to finish that card... Also got a really nasty papercut opening this envelope from
Screenshots Ahhh... Finished. I finally gathered up enough creativity/energy/inspirado to finish up where I left off yesterday with the screenshot pages. There's not much of a difference visually, and that's a Good Thing™. But it's totally different under the hood. The data is
Mind Fucked I'm having one of those days where I can't code for shite. I spent most of the day just staring at the screen. All I was able to do was that uptime stat thing on the bottom of the page. It wasn't too hard.
